#Academic

Steve Conlon

stevenconlon

It’s bizarre to me that nobody has asked some hard questions of UCD about this. Prior to the launch of these two campuses in China there was an attempt to

Scribulatora

Scribulatora

When I was young there was a family close that we used to call "rednecks". Bootleggers. Their house caught on fire and a fireman nearly died trying to save the

Francesco Orabona

bremen79

Dear PhD students with a submission to @NeurIPSConf, soon ~20% of you will receive a desk reject. Here some suggestions to deal with it in a healthy way.First, this is

Marit Kolby Zinöcker

zinocker

Did we get dietary saturated fats all wrong? The #HADLmodel provides a new understanding and an opportunity to get it right. THREAD@simondankel @kariannesve https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ajcn/nqaa322/610

marina 🕊 ☭

marinadove_

The problem isn’t with gen z— the problem is the culture of celebrity which can be attained through targeted harassment. Everyone with access to the internet knows there’s power in

abbey steele

abbey_st

Thanks to my friend and colleague @hakhverdian for helping me talk through these ongoing developments in the US.https://twitter.com/hakhverdian/status/1348989829095301127 for those interested, here are some of the pieces i referred to

Katy Barnett

DrKatyBarnett

I have been thinking about the difference between patronage and mentorship. Patronage: a person gathers followers, who are rewarded for support. Those who do not support the patron are marginalised.

David John Baker, PhD

DavidJohnBaker

Looks like this #musicscience pre-print showing 0 effect between musical training and cognitive abilities has been accepted at Memory and Cognition and is getting some press. https://psyarxiv.com/7s8wr/ IMO moments like this

Kevin Farnsworth

Dr_K_Farnsworth

Academia is a bizarre world. Like all academics, I am often asked do work for free. But today I received the worst offer yet! Review 10 chapters for an upcoming

Leah Cook

LeahCookPhD

~5 years ago, I applied for a K99 and on the day of submission realized that Letters of Reference are entirely different from Letters of Support. That resulted in frantic

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

So much focus on sensitivity of the test. As though all tests must match up to PCRBut could focusing so much on achieving the greatest molecular sensitivity for asymptomatic testing

Ben Woodfinden

BenWoodfinden

Would highly recommend people read @jamiljivani's excellent and moving first hand account of how Ontario's academic/applied streaming system creates barriers that hurt underprivileged students the most, like Jamil, and why

Anna Meier

AnnaMeierPS

I'm a first-generation graduate student. Here is a thread of things I didn't know when I started my program. 1/ I didn't know that citing your undergraduate thesis was a

Melusi Thwala

realmelt

I review journal and examine theses manuscripts. Sometimes I don't think supervisors do justice, sometimes you wonder if the manuscript was even read by the senior co-authors. Once I had

Ewan Gibbs

ewangibbs

I enjoyed @jemgilbert’s interview about the Labour left on @poltheoryother. The observation that Corbyn and his allies saw themselves primarily in terms of anti-austerity politics and not the longer term

🥂 marquis de posade 🏖

acczibit

Fuck I need to reevaluate Settlers now goddamnithttps://twitter.com/anti_minotaur/status/1295126210125729792 He is essentially talking about parallel status hierarchies like I did in that thread everyone chimped at me for lolBasically the w

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